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U.S. Military Detains 2,500 Juveniles as Unlawful Enemy Combatants
“The U.S. military is holding about 500 juveniles suspected of being “unlawful enemy combatants” in detention centers in Iraq and has about 10 detained in Afghanistan, the United States has told the United Nations.
A total of 2,500 youths under the age of 18 have been detained, almost all in Iraq, for periods up to a [...]
FEMA To Help Run 8-Day Disaster & Terror Drill
FEMA announced recently that they will be conducting a national disaster exercise called National Level Exercise 2-08 (NLE 2-08) from May 1st through May 8th. The purpose of this exercise is to prepare and respond to multiple incidents including natural disasters and terrorist incidents. Specifically the exercise involves a Category 4 hurricane impacting the Mid [...]
Bush To Veto Wiretap Bill After “Republican Ads” Threaten America Vulnerable to Terrorism
The LA Times writes, “Extending a battle with the Bush administration over espionage laws, Democrats in the House pushed through legislation Friday that would give the government expanded wiretapping authorities but would not shield phone companies from lawsuits for aiding U.S. spy agencies.
The bill was approved in the face of a veto threat from President [...]
NSA Warrantless Spying Resurrects Banned ‘Total Information Awareness’ Project
Total Information Awareness — the all-seeing terrorist spotting algorithm-meets-the-mother-of-all-databases that was ostensibly de-funded by Congress in 2003, never actually died, and was largely rebuilt in secret by the NSA, according to the Wall Street Journal’s Siobhan Gorman.
In a fantastic story Monday, Gorman pulls together threads and lays out what many have suspected and alleged in [...]
Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff: Afraid of Britain, Bin Laden, and The American Boogie Man
Homeland Security Chief scaremonger Michael Chertoff has sounded off on what he believes is America’s biggest vulnerability to terrorism. This weakness, Chertoff believes, is the American public.
“The great weapon they have is persistence and patience, and the one weakness that we have is the tendency to lose patience and become complacent…
It strikes me as hard [...]
Report: Al-Qaida Converts Opposition by Baking Children and Serving them to their Parents
It would seem that American offices of disinformation are at it again, this time giving al-Qaida fairy tale like status along the lines of a new freshly combined myth with similarities to the legendary Oliver Twist and the insidious tale of of Hansel and Gretel.
Oliver Twist:
“Speaking through an American interpreter, Lt. David Wallach, who is a native Arabic speaker, [...]
More Lies From Officials About The JFK Terror Plot
Here is another example of how the press if feeding into the government led stance that the plot to blow up JFK International Airport and the underground fuel lines that run across the airport all the way to New Jersey was a credible threat.Although investigators have been “investigating” this case since January of 2006, they now [...]
